Crafts, adventures, and all things beautiful.

01/15/2013

I Made This: Batik Receiving Blanket

Are you actually telling me I bought fabric & completed the project it was intended for... all in the same day? This never happens; the first half of that sentence hardly happens. I have stacks of long forgotten fabric that prove it.

As for this receiving blanket I made... can you tell I'm loving a certain subject lately? All things BABY related :) With Jordan and I expecting a little one of our own this summer, I have been thinking ahead and buying a few (or lots of) things here and there. We don't currently know the gender we are having, but I do know one thing, I've about had it with the boring selection of pale blues and pinks you have to choose from for babies. I'm not the type to be seen with a pink ruffley stroller or carseat, and I'm going to avoid the boy-ish train covered bedsheets as much as I can.

I can't help that I want my style to reflect on the items I will be carrying around for the baby... so I've begun making my own items! As time-consuming or unnecessary as that may sound to you, it's actually been really fun. It helps that many baby items are fairly easy to create or sew. As you saw in an earlier post, I have already made a previous receiving blanket out of a remnant of fleece.

I love that I can pick the colors, shapes and sizes! Take a look at my newest blanket for my baby Bean:

It was really fun to put this one together!

I bought all the materials this morning at JoAnn fabrics... for a total of $3.78; which is awesome is you think about the price of A. a custom receiving blanket, and of B. having an activity to do this afternoon. Since the baby will be born in the summer, I felt it was okay to leave the blanket as the thin one layer of fabric. I finished the edges of the 36'' x 36'' blanket by sewing bias tape around the border! I even took the time to sew the bias tape on correctly, pins and all. It's exciting.